Twitter is one of the largest social networks out there. Sadly, where you have that much free exchange of dialogue, you also end up with a bunch of people saying and doing some pretty mean and offensive things.

Since bullying, mocking, and other forms of harassment don't always fit in 140 characters, Twitter is now giving users the ability to attach multiple tweets to a single report.

Unlike muting and blocking, reporting is a means of countering abusive behavior, rather than merely tuning it out. Twitter says it investigates reports to determine an appropriate response. Attaching multiple tweets gives it more information and provides a better look at the situation. This change doesn't solve the problem, but it gives people one more way to fight back.

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With Gamer Gate, she mainstreamed false harassment for certain topics and people.

Đức Thành

Who are they and what happened? I'm from the other hemisphere of the planet, but you guys have gotten me curious now. Anyone care to do a little TL;DR?

Denigrate

Zoe Quinn, a video game developer, had sex with journalists for recognition and praise. Her boyfriend called her out, internet users harassed and threatened her. Became a big controversy with Gamer Gate talking about sexism. Anita is the main person involved in calling out the sexism but is really complaining about everything that doesn't appease to her and disguising it as sexism.
There are legitimate issues, like actual sexism, with the controversy that were abandoned.

Đức Thành

I see, thanks. That was a nice summary.

ScottyT14

Here's a better summary, from someone who attended a journalist event on the issue in Miami that got shut down from a bomb threat.

A game developer is outed for sleeping with games journalist for positive coverage of their game. People got in an uproar, and multiple gaming sites did damage control, releasing 14 articles within 24 hours calling 'gamers are dead, they don't have to be your audience'. People suspected collusion, and a private email group of journos was found, 'Game Journos Pro'. The media decided to stick with talking about sexism, instead of point out their own ethical failings as journalists. And almost 2 years later, there are still people in the media spotlight that have cashed in on the narrative that gamergate has abused them, such as Anita Sarkeesian, who instead of releasing videos she got paid for, quit, and now takes money doing speeches and going to the UN and Twitter to implement tools that won't do anything.

Meffaliss

Pretty much, yup yup.
A lot of stuff like that happened, and still happens unfortunately. For example, Kotaku's horrid article on Street Fighter 5, claiming everyone should just shut up about the female character no longer have that close up of her behind and that apparently trans character and enjoy the game instead..... when people were ACTUALLY complaining about an unfinished game that was missing feautres, lacked an arcade mode and had an online mode that just wouldn't work. All that unfinished stuff for full retail price.
Looks like some people never cared for their journalistic to begin with...

ScottyT14

The bar for journalism in these fields has gotten absurdly low. Now it seems any person with an ego can talk down to their audience and be reassured a paycheck from big sites. Take Arthur Gies from Polygon, telling his readers they didn't know anything when they pointed out that SimCity's Online DRM could be (and was) undone.

They treat their audience with disrespect, and then demand respect.

Meffaliss

Hahahaha, oh god... don't get me started on the writers on Polygon!
Bayonetta 2 article is one that comes to my mind.
Also the DRM was broken in a matter of a few days if I recall.
Thankfully I get my information from more credible people which have proven themselves to be trust worthy.

Not for you

As you can see from the other replies. Goobergate is now about a group of butthurt fanboys who go after anyone (but mostly women) who criticizes their favourite games. They also don't understand the difference between journalism and criticism.

All because one particular ex-boyfriend got upset and stirred up four-chan.

While growing a thick skin is important, it also doesn't give the right to attack someone, verbally. A good community actively discourages any kind of threat of violence, real or fake, and shouldn't accept abusive language as a norm.

ScottyT14

Abusive language isn't the norm.
Name a celebrated figure that partakes in 'abusive language'.

Justin

Every rapper ever.

Cowboydroid

Actually, it does. You do have the right to verbally attack someone. It's called the right to free speech.